Email is a constant battle with ISP's. Due to the issue being the way various email service providers are handling email from us, it's more an issue of being able to convince mail providers not to send email into a black hole during our peak email traffic times.

We'll keep working on the issue and appreciate you guys letting us know what you are experiencing. Letting the Email service provider what is happening as well will help. Check spam folders and hit not spam if COW mail appears there. Add bessie, forums and other cow email addresses to your contacts.

Hi Jeremy & Abraham,
Curiously to me its happens only with "FC Basic Forum" posts.
Of course Is not any issue; was just to point that somewhere there is a gremlin at work.
I don't think is any "Spam" related problem. I receive the COW posts on a "Hotmail' account without any kind of Spam preferences.
rafael

Mine happens across multiple forums. I don't use hotmail, but another free email service. It is definitely not spammed and addresses are already added. I'll see if I can contact them, and get a response.

Thank you, Jeremy. The best things users and leaders can do is contact their service providers and ask them why they are blocking Creative COW mail.

They automatically assume that we are spammers because with 1.7 million users a month now, there is a lot of email that goes out from a site like this. Because they've never heard of it, they automatically assume it's spam.

We have grown to where we are so big -- for a small company -- that we are in "no man's land." We are big enough that we are being seen as a huge email source but not big enough to where they have come to realize that we are legitimate.

Most mail gets through but there are days when some email gets delayed delivery -- and in a very few cases, gets filtered to the bit bucket.

Assuring your service provider that you want mail from Creative COW and that it isn't spam -- along with whitelisting us in your address book, etc. -- is something we hope that you and other members will do to help get us through this period of no man's land.

On a totally unrelated and separate note, I had a (couple of) scrumptious beers from Paso Robles last night from a brewery I had never tried. (not sure if you drink, and if you don't sorry but tell your drinking friends).

If you do drink, I'm sure you've experienced it as it probably flows like Miller in Wisconsin. I am probably telling you what you already know. I thought it was worth a mention, at least.

It should be possible but I've watched the logs during our peak email periods and seen emails being sent with a confirmation from the email service provider's server that they were sent successfully but then the email disappears into the ether. This means there's no bounce and everything looks like it was sent successfully on our end. Unfortunately we don't keep all emails after they appear to be successfully sent. We do receive bounce notices and have server logs that we store and monitor but I'm not seeing any bounces from your email address or Rafael's.

We'll keep working on it and hopefully the gremlin will show its little head.